Senior/Principal Solutions Architect - Enterprise Tech Solutions, Hybrid

Sandia National Laboratories is the nation's premier science and engineering lab for national security and technology innovation, with teams of specialists focused on cutting-edge work in a broad array of areas. Some of the main reasons we love our jobs:

• Challenging work with amazing impact that contributes to security, peace, and freedom worldwide
• Extraordinary co-workers
• Some of the best tools, equipment, and research facilities in the world
• Career advancement and enrichment opportunities
• Flexible work arrangements for many positions include 9/80 (work 80 hours every two weeks, with every other Friday off) and 4/10 (work 4 ten-hour days each week) compressed workweeks, part-time work, and telecommuting (a mix of onsite work and working from home)
• Generous vacation, strong medical and other benefits, competitive 401k, learning opportunities, relocation assistance and amenities aimed at creating a solid work/life balance*

World-changing technologies. Life-changing careers. Learn more about Sandia at: http://www.sandia.gov

*These benefits vary by job classification.

We are seeking an experienced Solutions Architect to join our dynamic team responsible for managing a large-scale enterprise Product Data Management (PDM) system. This system delivers best-in-class engineering solutions that support our Nuclear Deterrence (ND) and Nuclear Security Enterprise (NSE) customers.

On any given day, you may be called on to:

• Capture and define technical and business functional requirements
• Create and define application architecture designs as per business requirements
• Plan, document, perform and test complex upgrades
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues within a complex multi-tier system
• Researches, assembles, and evaluates information or data regarding industry practices or regulatory changes affecting policies or programs of various information system domains.
• Interfaces with the customers, internal or external to Sandia. to elicit and define information system requirements.
• Researches, prototypes, architects, and designs solutions for effective operation of mission enabling or direct mission information systems, especially in cloud infrastructure
• Accountable to internal or external customers for overall technical performance of information systems.
• Responsible for resolving issues that require architectural changes.
• Develops strategic solutions that reduce future life-cycle costs and position Sandia synergistically for future mission work.
• Advances solution space by resolving complex, difficult, or unique information system issues using creative, effective, and possibly leading-edge solutions.
• Evaluates and select commercial-off-the-shelf or open source information systems domain options.

*The selected applicant will work a hybrid schedule, combining onsite and remote work. They must reside within a reasonable commute distance to the assigned work location and be available to work onsite at least three days per week.

$117,500 - $235,700

*Salary range is estimated, and actual salary will be determined after consideration of the selected candidate's experience and qualifications, and application of any approved geographic salary differential.

• Bachelor's degree in relevant discipline, or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience. Plus, five years or more years of directly related experience that demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and ability to perform the duties of the job.
• You must be able to obtain and maintain a US DOE Q level security clearance, and which might require a polygraph test (random selection).

• Experience with installing, configuring, and administering complex multi-tier web-based applications
• Understanding of enterprise and network services like Virtual Servers, DNS, LDAP and Databases
• Experience configuring web servers and scripting in PowerShell and/or windows command
• Experience configuring Apache Web Server on Windows
• Experience managing a Windows Server to include familiarity with basic Windows tools such as Event Manager, Tasks and Services.
• Experience configuring applications that connect to Oracle, Mongo and/or MSSQL databases
• Experience with Entra/OIDC
• Experience writing system level scripts to include PowerShell and basic command shell for automating administrative tasks
• Experience with Microsoft Technologies and M365 SaaS products
• Experience in Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), or Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Experience with automating processes via scripting and DevOps pipelines
• Experience with creating Azure security and governance policies (i.e., writing and creating definitions, creating assignments, fixing broken policies, etc.)

The Product Data Management Operations Enterprise Technical Solutions department (9357) is responsible for the strategy definition, development, and implementation of modern, efficient, scalable and secure next generation PDM engineering solutions used throughout the Nuclear Security Enterprise (NSE) and provides Operations and Maintenance (O&M) for the Out Of The Box (OOTB) capabilities provided by the Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) Windchill PDMLink application. The 9357 mission enables the goal of the Nuclear Weapons Stockpile (NA-122) Product Realization Integrated Digital Enterprise (PRIDE) program which is to enable a digital integrated Nuclear Security Enterprise (NSE).

This posting will be open for application submissions for a minimum of three (3) calendar days, including the 'posting date'. Sandia reserves the right to extend the posting date at any time.

Sandia is required by DOE to conduct a pre-employment drug test and background review that includes checks of personal references, credit, law enforcement records, and employment/education verifications. Applicants for employment need to be able to obtain and maintain a DOE Q-level security clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship. If you hold more than one citizenship (i.e., of the U.S. and another country), your ability to obtain a security clearance may be impacted.

Applicants offered employment with Sandia are subject to a federal background investigation to meet the requirements for access to classified information or matter if the duties of the position require a DOE security clearance. Substance abuse or illegal drug use, falsification of information, criminal activity, serious misconduct or other indicators of untrustworthiness can cause a clearance to be denied or terminated by DOE, resulting in the inability to perform the duties assigned and subsequent termination of employment.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status and any other protected class under state or federal law.

If you have a Medical Portable Electronic Device (MedPED), such as a pacemaker, defibrillator, drug-releasing pump, hearing aids, or diagnostic equipment and other equipment for measuring, monitoring, and recording body functions such as heartbeat and brain waves, if employed by Sandia National Laboratories you may be required to comply with NNSA security requirements for MedPEDs.

If you have a MedPED and you are selected for an on-site interview at Sandia National Laboratories, there may be additional steps necessary to ensure compliance with NNSA security requirements prior to the interview date.